Cigar wrapper and process of making the same



Jan. 10, 1933 H, AbzlNsKY 1,893,523

CIGAR WRAPPER AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Nov. 27, 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 avwzmtoz Jan. 10, 1933. H. RADZINSKY 1,893,523

CIGAR WRAPPER AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Nov. 27, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 awuewtoz Patented Jan. 10, 193i:

1 UNITED STATES HARRY RADZINSKY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

PATENT OFFICE ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL BANDING- MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. 'Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK CIGAR WRAPPER AND PROCESS OF MAKIN G THE SAME a ncaeoa filed November 27, 1981. Serial menses.

This invention relates to wrappers for ci ers and similar articles and the process 0 making the same.

At the present time, cigars are usually wrapped in transparent wrappers or enclosures, these wrappers being generally composed of the transparent material widely sold under the trade name of cellophane. This form of wrapper usually consists of a sheet sufiiciently large enough to enclose the cigar and protect it while being boxed or handled. In addition to the form of enclosing wrapper just described, each cigar is usually banded. In some cases, the cigar band is located on the inside of the cellophane wrapper. Inother cases it is located on the outside of the wrapper and when so located serves to hold the wrapper in place about the cigar. Thus, the present-day cigar is in most cases both handed and wrapped. Usually the wrapping of the cigar in its cellophane wrapper is performed by a wrapping machine, the wrapped cigars being'then fed to a cigar banding machine which applies the band over the wrapper. Sometimes the bands are first applied to the cigars, the banded cigars being then fed to the wrapping machine. In either case two operations, that is, wrapping and banding are required. This naturally greatly increases the cost of the cigars since it materially slows up the completion' of the finished wrapped and handed product.

Efiorts have been made in the past to simplify the banding and wrapping operations by combining'a wrapper and band into a single unit as by printing a representation of a cigar band directly on the cellophane wrapper. ticularly successful due to the difiiculty in producing the ornate printing and embossing usually employed on cigar bands on the surface of the cellophane wrapper. Ithas also been found difficult to use the color combinations generally employed, with the result that these printing efiorts have not beenparticularly successful and consequently cigar;

wrappers bearing a printed representation of a cigar band are seldom used except in cases Such eflorts have not been par-' where the band representation employed is of very simple coloring and design.

The object of this invention is to provide a combined cigar wrapper and'band, wherein all the effects of a separate and independently applied wrapper and band are attained,

coupled with the simplicity of a single wrapper-applying operation. I attain these desired results by attaching the band directly bands are attached to the cellophane wrapm per's in the novel manner herein described, and the wrappers are folded about the cigars by an accurately operating wrapping machine, the appearance of the wrapped cigar is better than that in which separate band and wrapper-are employed. 7

In the embodiments of my invention dis closed in the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of an apparatus for making the combined wrap ers and bands; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the and strip after the application of the spaced adhesive spots; Fig. 3 1s a plan view of one of the bands preparatory to the same being aflixed to a cellophane wrapper; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the cellophane stri to which the band strip has been applied, t e transverse dotted lines indicating the points of severance of the strip and applied bands; Fi pleted wrapper ready %or application to a cigar; Fi 6 isa modified form of apparatus for applying bands to separate or cut wrappers; Fig. 7 is a view of the mechanism for 5 shows the compressing the bands on the wrappers; Fig 8 In the embodiment of m invention disclosed in Figs; 1 to 5 incluslve, 10 indicates a roll of cigar bands. This roll is composed of a continuous strip of bands as disclosed in Fig. 2 except that while the strip is in the roll, the adhesive dots or areas 23 shown in Fig. 2 have not as yet been applied.

The band strip 19 drawn from the roll 10 extends under a tension roller 11 and passes over a gum-applying device 12 which applies spaced dots or spots of adhesive 23 to the rinted and embossed face of the strip as indicated, these spots of adhesive being so spaced that the same are located at the ends of each band and between adjacent bands in the strip as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The gumming device 12 may be in-the form of a ribbed roller or the like rotatably mounted on a bracket 13 mounted on a glue container14. A driven roller 15 picks up. adhesive from the container 14 and by contact with the spaced ribs on the gummer 12, applies the gum thereto, which is in turn applied to the band strip 19 at the spaced points 23 as heretofore explained.

At 16 is shown a roll of cellophane paper or other similar material adapted to be later severed into sections to form the wrappers. The paper from this roll. in company with the gummed band strip 19 passes between a pair of pressing rollers 17 and 18, these rollers serving to press the band strip 19 and the cellophane paper 20 together to adhesively aflix the band strip on the cellophane strip. The two strips 19 and 20 thus adhesively united, pass out as a unit from between the rollers 17 and 18 and are received upon a supporting table 21 along which they travel until a cutting knife 22 is reached which severs the strip into the wrappers 26. The

- movements of the knife are synchronized with respect to the other parts of the device so that the severance of the strip occurs at predetermined intervals with the result that the strip is severed on the dotted lines 25 which produces a wrapper 26 on the face of Which'is an attached cigar band 24, as shown in Fig. 5. The wrappers in this form are then fed to the ordinary cigar-wrapping machine which wraps them about the cigars in the customary manner.

It will be seen that through the process of manufacture just described, the adhesive spots 23, while applied to the printed and embossed face of the band, are applied outside of the ornamented area of the band.

' That is to say, these spaced adhesive spots are applied'adjacent the ends or tips of the band where there is little, if any, ornamenta tion, so that no ma'rring of the ornament-ation of the band occurs by either the contact of the adhesive. with the colored band face or by the spreading of the. adhesive during the operation of atlixing the bands to the wrappers. Additionally. when the cigars are Wrapped and boxed those end portions of the band where the adhesive spots are face of the band is visible through the transparent wrapper. It will, of course, be .understood that the band may be adhesively applied to the outer face of the wrapper so that when the wrapper is placed on a cigar, the band will be outermost. To effect this result, it is merely necessary that the adhesive be applied to the rear face of the band rather than to the front or colored face.

In the embodiment of my invention disclosed in Figs. 6 to 10 inclusive, the cigar bands are singly applied to cut or separate cellophane wrappers. The pile of separate wrappers is shown at 30. gumming device, consisting of a plunger 31 is located above the pile 30 and is arranged, through suitable plunger-operating mechanism to descend and apply several spaced spots of "um 44 to the uppermost wrapper in the pile. or this purpose, the plunger has a pair of spaced, downwardly extending projections 32 which have their lower ends terminating in soft contacting portions 33, the lower faces of which receive an application of adhesive from a gum-applying roller 34 that is mounted to reciprocate on rods 35 across the machine.

The plunger 31 after receiving an applica tion of adhesive on the under faces of these parts 33 descends, the projections 32 passing through openings 37 formed in a stripper plate 36 located directly beneath the plunger and above the wrapper pile 30. On this descent of the plunger, the gummed ends 33 of the same are brought into contact with the uppermost wrapper in the pile. The wrapper adheres to the gummed plungerends and is elevated thereby until it is brought into contact with the plate 36 which strips it from the plunger-ends 33 and it drops down upon a conveyor consisting of several sliding hooks 38', which has, after the wrapper has been lifted by the plunger, been moved to a position beneath the lifted wrapper to receive it when it is stripped from the plunger the action of the stripper plate 36.

The conveyor 38, carrying the gummed wrapper is then drawn to the right of Fig. 6 where it deposits the gummed wrapper 39 upon a base plate 40. Located above this base plate is a plunger 45 adapted to press a band on the gummed spots 44 provided on the wrapper 39 that is now located on the base plate 40. The bands adapted for application to the wrappers, are supported in a stack or pile 41, above which is located a suction picker 42 that picks up the uppermost band 43 from the pile and carries it to the left of Fig. 6, to a position directly above the wrapper 39 as shown in dotted lines. The picker, when it reaches that position, descends and brings the band carried by it down on the face of the gummed wrapper 39. The plunger 45 is provided with a pair of down-' wardly-extending projections 46 which have their lower ends terminating in pads 47 When the plunger 45 descends, these pads 47 are brought into contact with the parts of the band that are located on top of the gum spots 44 and applies force thereon to adhesively unite the band to the Wrapper. The positions of the parts at this time are shown in detail in Fig. 7. The plunger 45 is then raised, as is the picker 42, leaving the completed wrapper ready to be delivered either immediately or later to a device for applying the wra per about a cigar. Such a wrapping mac lne may form a part of the apparatus herein described or may beentirely independent thereof.

It will be seen from Figs. 9 and 10 that the length of the band applied to the wrapper is preferably less than the width of the wrapper whereby a marginal space 50 extending alon parallel edges of the wrapper is provided. This permits free overlapping action of these edges of the wrapper without causing bulk by overla of the cigar band ends. If desired one of t e marginal edges of the wrapper may be applied with an adhesive area or line of gum 48 by which the overlapped edges of the wrapper may be secured together. This line of gum may be ap lied simultaneously with the application 0 the gum spots 44, or before or after as desired.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that by following either of the several processes and by the utilization of the apparatus in the several forms herein disclosed, a cigar wrapper will be produced which can be easily applied to cigars by the ordinary cigar-wrappin machine with the use of a separate cigarban ing mechanism completely obviated. The bands are applied to the wra pers in such a way, that is to say, by spaced g ue areas outside of the embossed and ornamented parts of the band, that the appearance and finish'of the band is in no way detracted from. Thus, these wrappers, while presenting the appearance of a separate wrap d and banded cigar, wholly dispense with t e use of handing apparatus, and the inconvenience and expense of operating such banding apparatus to say nothing of the delay in completing the .wra ped product.

1 lafilclaimisz? ki e process 0 ma n 0] ar wra rs consisting in adhesively a ttacdiing a siisip composed of a number of cigar bands to the face of a stripof transparent material with the exposure side of the bands facing the transparent material, and then severi the two attached strips into sections, each 0 said severed sections consisting in a wrapper and attached band, the wrapper being of sumcient size to enclose a cigar.

2. The process of making cigar wrappers consisting in adhesively attaching successive ci ar-bands to the face of a transparent strip with the colored faces of the bands facing the transparent strip for exposure therethrough and thereafter severing said strip and attached bands into sections, each of said severed sections bearing a band.

3. The process of making cigar wrappers consisting in applying spaced spots of adhesive on a transparent cigar wrapper adjacent the side edges of the wrapper, 1n applying a band against the wrapper with its co' ored face directed toward the face of the wrapper on which the adhesive has been applied and applying pressure on the band to adhesively secure it to the wrapper.

4. The process of making cigar wrappers consisting in feeding a transparent sheet between pressure means, in applying spaced spots of adhesive to a strip of connected cigar bands, feeding the cigar band strip between the pressure means in company with the transparent sheet with the colored faces of the cigar bands directed toward the trans.- parent sheet for exposure therethrough, and severing'the sheet and adhesively attached band strip into sections so that each of the severed sections comprises a cigar wrapper and an attached band.

5. The process of making cigar wrappers consisting in bringing a transparent cigar wrapper and a cigar band in intimate contact with the colored face of the cigar band directed toward the transparent wrapper, with spaced spots of adhesive between them to secure the band to the wrapper, and applying pressure toadhesively attach the band to the wrapper.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 23rd day of November, 1931.

HARRY RADZINSKY. 

